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Laurent Petit is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research spans multiple subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, neurology, and physiology.

The scientist's work is primarily centered on advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications. They have published on topics including advanced MRI techniques, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, medical imaging and analysis, bone and joint diseases, and MRI in cancer diagnosis.

Laurent Petit has an extensive publication record across several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Structure and Function
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition

Some of their recent scientific papers include:

  • Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?, 2021, NeuroImage
  • A new method for accurate in vivo mapping of human brain connections using microstructural and anatomical information, 2020, Science Advances
  • Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single white matter voxel orientation: The bottleneck issue in tractography, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Tractostorm: The what, why, and how of tractography dissection reproducibility, 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Laurent Petit collaborates frequently with a range of researchers in the field. Their notable coauthors include:

  • Maxime Descoteaux
  • François Rheault
  • Silvio Sarubbo
  • Jon Haitz Legarreta
  • Kurt G. Schilling

Best Publications

  • The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography

    Klaus H. Maier-Hein;Peter F. Neher;Jean-Christophe Houde;Marc-Alexandre Cote

  • An Area Specialized for Spatial Working Memory in Human Frontal Cortex

    Susan M. Courtney;Laurent Petit;José Ma. Maisog;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Cortical networks for working memory and executive functions sustain the conscious resting state in man

    Bernard Mazoyer;Laure Zago;Emmanuel Mellet;Stephan Bricogne

  • What is right-hemisphere contribution to phonological, lexico-semantic, and sentence processing? Insights from a meta-analysis

    Mathieu Vigneau;Virginie Beaucousin;Pierre-Yves Hervé;Gaël Jobard

  • Distinguishing the functional roles of multiple regions in distributed neural systems for visual working memory.

    James V. Haxby;Laurent Petit;Leslie G. Ungerleider;Susan M. Courtney

  • A Parametric fMRI Study of Overt and Covert Shifts of Visuospatial Attention

    Michael S. Beauchamp;Laurent Petit;Timothy M. Ellmore;John Ingeholm

  • Brain activity at rest: A multiscale hierarchical functional organization

    Gaëlle Doucet;Mikaël Naveau;Laurent Petit;Nicolas Delcroix

  • The role of prefrontal cortex in working memory: examining the contents of consciousness.

    Susan M. Courtney;Laurent Petit;James V. Haxby;Leslie G. Ungerleider

  • Gaussian mixture modeling of hemispheric lateralization for language in a large sample of healthy individuals balanced for handedness.

    Bernard Mazoyer;Laure Zago;Gaël Jobard;Fabrice Crivello

  • Reopening the mental imagery debate: lessons from functional anatomy.

    E. Mellet;L. Petit;B. Mazoyer;M. Denis

  • Sustained Activity in the Medial Wall during Working Memory Delays

    Laurent Petit;Susan M. Courtney;Leslie G. Ungerleider;James V. Haxby

  • Functional Anatomy of Pursuit Eye Movements in Humans as Revealed by fMRI

    Laurent Petit;James V. Haxby

  • Revisiting human hemispheric specialization with neuroimaging

    Pierre-Yves Hervé;Laure Zago;Laurent Petit;Bernard Mazoyer

  • Recognition of white matter bundles using local and global streamline-based registration and clustering.

    Eleftherios Garyfallidis;Marc-Alexandre Côté;Francois Rheault;Jasmeen Sidhu

  • AICHA: An atlas of intrinsic connectivity of homotopic areas.

    Marc Joliot;Gaël Jobard;Mikaël Naveau;Nicolas Delcroix

  • PET study of voluntary saccadic eye movements in humans: basal ganglia-thalamocortical system and cingulate cortex involvement

    L Petit;C Orssaud;N Tzourio;G Salamon

  • Neural Correlates of Topographic Mental Exploration: The Impact of Route versus Survey Perspective Learning

    E. Mellet;S. Bricogne;N. Tzourio-Mazoyer;O. Ghaëm

  • Dissociation of Saccade-Related and Pursuit-Related Activation in Human Frontal Eye Fields as Revealed by fMRI

    L. Petit;V. P. Clark;J. Ingeholm;J. V. Haxby

  • Functional Anatomy of a Prelearned Sequence of Horizontal Saccades in Humans

    Laurent Petit;Christophe Orssaud;Christophe Orssaud;Nathalie Tzourio;Fabrice Crivello

  • The resting state questionnaire: An introspective questionnaire for evaluation of inner experience during the conscious resting state.

    Pascal Delamillieure;Gaëlle Doucet;Bernard Mazoyer;Bernard Mazoyer;Marie Renée Turbelin

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Mazoyer
Bernard Mazoyer University of Bordeaux
Emmanuel Mellet
Emmanuel Mellet University of Bordeaux
Laure Zago
Laure Zago University of Bordeaux
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer University of Bordeaux
Fabrice Crivello
Fabrice Crivello University of Bordeaux
Marc Joliot
Marc Joliot University of Bordeaux
James V. Haxby
James V. Haxby Dartmouth College
Susan M. Courtney
Susan M. Courtney Johns Hopkins University
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Klaus H. Maier-Hein
Klaus H. Maier-Hein German Cancer Research Center

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